Walesa Draws Fire for Comments About Gay Rights

WARSAW—Lech Walesa, Poland's communist-era democracy campaigner, caused an uproar here by saying homosexuals shouldn't demand more rights and gay legislators should sit "behind a wall" in Parliament, words critics said put into question his legacy as a freedom fighter.

"They need to know they are a minority and adjust to smaller things instead of rising to the greatest heights, taking peak time, organizing the biggest provocations designed to spoil others or pick out people from the majority," he said...